Bills - Flood Control, 1943-1945

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: CAC_CC_049_1_1_4_0000

Staff Only

The Paul Stewart Collection contains approximately 1.5 cubic feet of material which dates primarily from 1922 to 1946, the years Stewart served in the state and national legislatures. There are a few financial documents from 1947 and 1948 concerning Stewart's ranch. Several scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings concerning the 1923 state bank probe, 1920s and 1930s state politics, the 1928 national election, state education, state highways and highway commission, labor, the investigation of communists at the state's universities, and other state and personal topics from 1922-1940. Information from Stewart's years in Congress is mainly contained in correspondence. Most of this correspondence consists of outgoing letters. Topics include Wilburn Cartwright's career and Stewart's bid to oust him, labor and anti-strike legislation, complaints against the Office of Price Administration, the Fair Employment Practices Act of 1945, flood control, and the Social Security Bill of 1943. These letters have been arranged by topic, but there are several folders labeled "Correspondence-General."

The length and depth of Paul Stewart's elected career, coupled with the brevity of this material, suggests that the Paul Stewart Collection is only a partial record. Stewart's family donated these materials to the University of Oklahoma after the congressman's death.